Library

The firm's knowledge, ready for every run.

Your firm's methods, standards, skills, and internal notes in one place. Everyone contributes, anyone can ask, and every run reaches for the right passage on its own, with the source shown.

What is our position on switching costs in a pricing review? Use the firm's own methods.

Working...

Draft

Switching costs in a pricing review

The firm sizes switching costs before it recommends a rise, following the pricing playbook1 and the switching-cost standard2. The Meridian teardown3 shows the method in practice.

What it holds

One place for how the firm works.

Methods, standards, skills, past work, and internal notes, contributed by the team and ready for the next engagement. The library answers questions on its own and feeds every run.

Everyone adds to what the firm knows.

Methods, standards, reusable skills, and the internal notes that usually live in someone's head go into one library. Each entry keeps a type, an owner, and a date, so the firm can tell what is canonical from what is a draft.

  • Add a method, standard, skill, or note in plain language
  • Every entry carries a type, an owner, and a last-reviewed date
  • An owner approves an entry before it counts as firm knowledge
Firm libraryEveryone contributes
  1. Priya Anand
    Method

    Discovery interview guide

    Strategy practice

  2. Marcus Hale
    Standard

    Source labelling rules

    Firm standard

  3. Elena Ross
    Skill

    Competitor teardown

    Reusable skill

  4. Priya Anand
    Note

    What buyers ask in renewals

    Internal doc

Ask the library, get a sourced answer.

Ask anything about how the firm works and get a direct answer, with the entries behind it listed. New joiners stop interrupting senior people for things the firm already wrote down.

  • Plain-language questions about methods, standards, and past work
  • Every answer lists the library entries it rests on
  • Answers respect who is allowed to see each entry
Ask the libraryCompany knowledge

What client data can we use on a new engagement before the NDA is signed?

HReading the library...

None until it is signed. The firm standard blocks client material pre-NDA1. Work from public sources and the kick-off checklist2 meanwhile; NDAs usually clear in two days3.

  1. 1StandardClient data handling
  2. 2MethodKick-off checklist
  3. 3NoteNDA turnaround times

The right passage arrives when the work needs it.

You do not have to remember what to attach. When a run touches something the firm has a standard or a method for, Hebno pulls the passage in and cites it in the draft, so the work follows the firm's way by default.

  • Relevant entries are pulled into a run without being asked
  • The passage is cited inline, back to the entry it came from
  • A reviewer can see which entries shaped the draft
Drafting a pricing reviewAuto-pull

Draft

Before recommending a rise, we size the switching costs the client would face1, then hold the number against the branded lines.

1From library

How we size switching costs

Firm standard. Weigh contract lock-in, retraining, and data migration before any price move.

How it works

From one person's knowledge to the firm's.

  1. 1

    Contribute

    Add a method, standard, skill, or note in plain language. Give it a type and an owner so the firm knows where it fits.

  2. 2

    Review

    An owner approves the entry. Approved entries are the firm's canonical answer; drafts stay marked as drafts.

  3. 3

    Ask or run

    Ask the library a question directly, or start a project. A run reaches for the entries it needs on its own.

  4. 4

    Trace

    Every answer and every draft shows the library entries behind it, back to the passage a reviewer can open.

Details

Knowledge the firm can trust.

Owned and reviewed

Every entry has an owner and an approval, so the firm knows what is canonical and who stands behind it.

Versioned and dated

Entries carry a version and a last-reviewed date. When one goes stale, the library flags it for its owner.

Skills that run

Reusable skills and prompts live beside the documents, and run from the library instead of being copied around.

Permissioned

Scope an entry firm-wide, to a practice, or to a client. People and runs only ever see what they are allowed to.

Gaps surfaced

When the same question keeps coming back with nothing behind it, the library suggests the entry worth writing.

Every answer traceable

See which entries a run used, back to the passage, so nothing enters a deliverable from an unnamed source.

Turn what your firm knows into work every engagement can reuse.

Book 20 minutes and watch a team go from brief to source-backed draft, with every source visible and ready to review.